{"id":98275,"date":"2024-06-28T18:28:29","date_gmt":"2024-06-28T16:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/%d1%87%d0%b5%d1%82%d0%b2%d1%80%d1%82%d0%b0-%d0%bc%d0%be%d0%bb%d0%b8%d1%82%d0%b2%d0%b0-%d0%bd%d0%b0-%d0%bc%d0%be%d0%b5%d1%82%d0%be-%d1%82%d0%b5%d0%bb%d0%be\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T03:21:45","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T02:21:45","slug":"fourth-prayer-of-my-body","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/reading-room\/poetry-shelf\/fourth-prayer-of-my-body\/","title":{"rendered":"Fourth Prayer of My Body"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1>\n\t\t\tFourth Prayer of My Body\t<\/h1>\n\tYou are here, above this body, like a restful wing,<br \/>\nyou, who are so rationally, so coolly generous<br \/>\nthat I want to plead for what has already been,<br \/>\nbecause the future in all hearts is cloudless.\nBraid together those bright days, that white burning,<br \/>\nthose flashes of lightning that sleep in darkness;<br \/>\nwrap them around this now proud, erect body,<br \/>\nas a whip or as ivy-it makes no difference.\nBraid them in a giant scar, harden them into faith,<br \/>\nonly give me, give me that light, to drink with nightmare,<br \/>\nbecause all that grows dark within my Yesterday<br \/>\nI hide in the depths as a radiant Tomorrow.\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/display-case\/\">Aco \u0160opov<\/a>, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/reading-room\/poetry-shelf\/not-being-content\/\">Not-Being (Nebidnina)<\/a><\/em>, 1963<br \/>\nTranslated from the Macedonian by Christina E. Kramer and Rawley Grau,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/reading-room\/poetry-shelf\/the-long-coming-of-the-fire-content\/\"><em>The Long Coming of the Fire<\/em><\/a>, Dallas, Deep Vellum, 2023.\n<p>Read the cycle <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/prayers-of-my-body-cycle\/\">Prayers of My Body<\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fourth Prayer of My Body You are here, above this body, like a restful wing, you, who are so rationally, so coolly generous that I want to plead for what has already been, because the future in all hearts is cloudless. Braid together those bright days, that white burning, those flashes of lightning that sleep&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":98423,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-98275","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/98275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98275"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/98275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101869,"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/98275\/revisions\/101869"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/98423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}